I remember watching an old cartoon about dancing birds, so I was very inspired to draw this huge 3 page party madness.
Exploration of bird’s land
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Monthly Archives: July 2015
Exploration of Heart
All the intense emotions I was going through after my family was forever divided seem to resemble those drops coming from the pierced heart.
Exploration 4
It says “Happy Birthday” in Russian. I was learning Russian at the time.
This is probably the first time I tried to draw myself. That Mickey Mouse shirt was my favorite.
Exploration 3
Exploration 2
This poor bunny.
Exploration 1
Pencil Worlds
This kind of little creatures drawing is my favorite. There is a lot going on and they just looks fun.
My Earliest Drawings
At least the ones I could find.
My sister says I was already drawing from very early age when we lived in Estonia, before the big event in my life.
After divorce of my parents, when I was 3, my dad “kidnapped” or took me to West Ukraine without telling anyone. I remember a few moments when he came to the daycare and we got into a huge truck with lots of his belongings. It was a fun journey for a child, since I could see all the Baltic countries on the way to Ukraine.
I remember drawing when we were staying for a few months in some country house and later, my dad’s relative’s apartment, before we settled in a village called Sadky. That’s where he married a new woman.
I have surprisingly many memories from that time, but sadly none of the drawings I did have survived. After about 2 years my mom finally found my whereabouts with the help of the police. When she arrived I could not take anything with me, as she rushed me to the car. I never returned to that village again, but the real tragedy for me was that I could not see my dad again during the rest of my childhood. Only after 18 years did I meet him again, but that’s another story.
Back to the drawings topic. I will keep posting here my entire collection of all the different stages of my development. The only problem is that there might be inconsistency with the dates of my earliest pieces. Because there is this gap between age 3 and 5 when I was in Ukraine and none of the drawings remained from that time. So there might be a mix up of the drawings I did before going to Ukraine and of the ones I did after returning at the age of 5. Anyway, I will try to sort it all out.
Here is one drawing that has my age written (top right corner) at least. I wish the other 500+ drawings showed that as well.
this is the flip side of that drawing
Then there is this one, which looks older, but it does not have a date.
I am guessing this one might be older too, it says “Jerry” and is most likey from Tom and Jerry cartoon.
I find these quite interesting to study. The way a child tries to capture his/her thoughts into shapes and forms has always fascinated me. Also, it’s worth noting that most children start out on the same level of drawing and later develop a specific style, so I’d like to see how I chose the path I am on right now.
Transfer Student – Production Log
Lately I have been changing this site, but I didn’t want to leave out my very first post I made in 2011, so I think it can stay here.
03.02.11.The start of my 2nd year film in Flash. It took quite a while to make sure the plot fits in the short 1.30 min, but after all the cuts and edits the production has started. I’m not sure how it will turn out, but it will be fun working on it.
Since the first part of the film has been chopped off, I changed the opening scene a bit by letting Roy chew a bubble gum (which will play a role later in the story)
11.02.11.The small intro of the main character Roy, who is sent ot a new school (every day), he is watching over the playground during recess and goes down the steps. Notice the coulours of the kids in the background. These colours are representing individual social groups who play a role in most schools.
Seriously, I cant stand using a normal tablet and staring at the monitor. This is not only frustrating, but also isnt accurate to draw. I know people who got used to it, but nothing can replace paper for me, thats why I got Cintiq, which is the closest to traditional drawing style.
Here I
24.02.11.The better view of the group is seen from Roy’s profile view. the nerds, goths and jocks are seen minding their own buisness. It’s supposed to be a pan, so the camera follows Roy all the way through.
Flash isnt completely useless, in fact its really good at making inbetweens and thats what I love the most about it. The tween options are also helpful for many things, especially for my individual project, where theres lots of drawings needed, but theres noone to draw them.
04.03.11.As Roy passes by the bully group, Rex, the group leader spots the new kid. Rex takes off his bag to pull an emo kid from it and throws the child at Roy.
I started colouring the scenes and characters while animating at the same time, which I shouldnt be doing. I think it gives me more developing ideas as I experiment with different things along the way. Thats the freedom you get when working alone on a project!
Right after I got Cintiq I finished all the keyframes in a week. Still, now that I have the tools, I need the brains to use them. Animating loads of kids at once isnt easy, they all have different clothes and faces…who wouldhve thought!The good thing though is that I dont need to redraw same bullies in every scene, since theres a whole pack of them, so creating a new one for each scene is fun.
11.03.11.The whole concept for the film came from Jet Set Radio music, I was inspired by the rule-breaking world and I thought it would be perfect to animate. Yes, the main character is an anarchist!
The basketball court scene is animated with music and everthing is fast-paced and energetic. Remember not to wink when watching this!
20.03.11.I got all the keyframes done, but now theres gonna be hours and hours of inbetweening and colouring.
Now that the holidays are coming, Im planning to spend all the time on this film. But some trouble might come when I start using sound effects, and I also need to record voices of 3 people.
I notice that the whole project is more like a comic book, so if it succeeds Im going to make Transfer Student into series.
There, now this post is safe and sound.
Cherry Cheers – Slightly Alternative Path
This is not exactly considered a comic, but the way this beatboard looks makes want to put it in this category. The main difference is that the word bubbles are under the panels! Also, this story is a kind of a remake of the already posted comic. When I was submitting it to Cartoon Hangover I wanted to wrap the first Cherry chapter up in a short pilot episode.
So anyway, here is that board
Antoonscape 
